James Poskett

Thesis: Metropole of the mind: phrenology and the making of a global science, 1815–1923Placement after PhD: Adrian Research Fellow, Darwin College, CambridgeLast known: Assistant Professor, History, University of Warwick

Kathryn Schoefert

Thesis: The view from the psychiatric laboratory: the research of Ernst Grünthal and his mid-twentieth-century peersPlacement after PhD: Researcher, Generation to Reproduction Project, HPS CambridgeLast known: Research and Teaching Associate, King's College London

Sophie Waring

Thesis: Thomas Young, the Board of Longitude and the age of reformPlacement after PhD: Modern Collections Curator, Museum of the History of Science, OxfordLast known: Curator of Chemistry, Science Museum, London

Sophie Brockmann

Thesis: Surveying nature: the creation and communication of natural-historical knowledge in Enlightenment Central AmericaPlacement after PhD: Lecturer in Integrated Studies, University of PennsylvaniaLast known: Early Career Academic Fellow, De Montfort University, Leicester

Will Carruthers

Thesis: Egyptology, archaeology and the making of revolutionary Egypt, c.1925–1958Placement after PhD: Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, FlorenceLast known: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Art History and World Art, University of East Anglia

Sean Dyde

Thesis: Brains, minds and nerves in British medicine and physiology, 1764–1852Placement after PhD: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, BerlinLast known: Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Leeds

Josh Nall

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

Thesis: Pregnancy testing in Britain, c. 1900–67: laboratories, animals and demand from doctors, patients and consumersPlacement after PhD: Research Associate, Generation to Reproduction project, HPS CambridgeLast known: Chancellor's Fellow in History of Health and Wellbeing, University of Strathclyde

Arianne Shahvisi

Thesis: On the nature and origins of thermodynamic asymmetryPlacement after PhD: Assistant Professor, Philosophy, American University of BeirutLast known: Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Humanities, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Lena Zuchowski

Thesis: On the foundations of chaos and complexity: definitions and differentiationsPlacement after PhD: Assistant Professor, University of Salzburg

Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau

Jenny Bangham

Thesis: Blood groups and the rise of human genetics in mid-twentieth century BritainPlacement after PhD: Research scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, BerlinLast known: Wellcome Fellow, HPS Cambridge

Katy Barrett

Thesis: The wanton line: Hogarth and the public life of longitudePlacement after PhD: Curator of Art, Royal Museums Greenwich, London

Michael Bycroft

Thesis: Physics and natural history in the eighteenth century: the case of Charles DufayPlacement after PhD: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, BerlinLast known: Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology, University of Warwick

2011

Geoff Belknap

Thesis: From a photograph: photography and the periodical print press, 1870–1890Placement after PhD: Research Fellow at Harvard University and Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library, CambridgeLast known: Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

Mirjam Brusius

Thesis: Preserving the forgotten: William Henry Fox Talbot, photography and the antiquePlacement after PhD: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, BerlinLast known: TORCH unit, University of Oxford

Sophia Davis

Thesis: 'Britain an island again': nature, the military and popular views of the British countryside, c.1930–1965Placement after PhD: Fellowship, Max Planck Institute, BerlinLast known: Medical Therapist, Berlin

David Feller

Thesis: The hunter's gaze: Charles Darwin and the role of dogs and sport in nineteenth-century natural historyPlacement after PhD: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Darwin College, CambridgeLast known: Senior Contracts Manager, School of Physical Sciences, Research Operations, University of Cambridge

Lydia Wilson

Alex Wragge-Morley

Thesis: The work of representing natural things in England, 1650–1720Placement after PhD: Departmental Lecturer in Early Modern History, Faculty of History and Somerville College, University of OxfordLast known: Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History, University College London

2010

Salim Al-Gailani

Thesis: Teratology and the clinic: monsters, obstetrics and the making of antenatal life in EdinburghPlacement after PhD: Wellcome Research Fellow, HPS CambridgeLast known: Research and Teaching Associate, HPS Cambridge

Michael Bresalier

Thesis: Medical science and the making of a virus disease in London, 1890–1939Placement after PhD: Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate, CHSTM, University of ManchesterLast known: Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Swansea University

Tamas Demeter

Bonnie Evans

Thesis: Mental defectives, childhood psychotics and the origins of autism research at the Maudsley Hospital, 1913–1983Placement after PhD: Research Fellow, Humanities and Health, King's College LondonLast known: Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, History, Queen Mary University of London

Sacha Golob

Thesis: Intentionality, freedom, method: theoretical and practical philosophy in Kant and HeideggerPlacement after PhD: Junior Research Fellow, Peterhouse, CambridgeLast known: Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London

Margaret Olszewski

Thesis: Papier-mâché flowers, fruits and seeds: the botanical teaching models of Dr Auzoux in late nineteenth-century France, Great Britain and AmericaPlacement after PhD: Medical Doctor, USA

Jennifer Rampling

Thesis: The alchemy of George Ripley, 1470–1700Placement after PhD: Wellcome Research Fellow, HPS CambridgeLast known: Assistant Professor, History, Princeton University

Leon Rocha

Thesis: Sex, eugenics, aesthetics, utopia in the life and work of Zhang Jingsheng (1888–1970)Placement after PhD: Junior Research Fellowship, Emmanuel College, CambridgeLast known: Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Department of History, University of Liverpool

Alireza Taheri

Thesis: An analysis of pathological forms of guilt and aggressivity in the work of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan and LaplanchePlacement after PhD: Lecturer, HamAva Psychoanalytic Institute

2009

Caroline Baumann

Thesis: Social norms, skills and rational choicePlacement after PhD: Not known

Adam Toon

2008

Katherine Angel

Thesis: Psychosomatic histories and the causes of contemporary biomedicinePlacement after PhD: Research Associate, University of WarwickLast known: Research Fellowship, Queen Mary, University of London; author

Melanie Keene

Elselijn Kingma

Thesis: Health and disease: defining our conceptsPlacement after PhD: Research Fellowship, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USALast known: Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Southampton

Wang-Yen Lee

Thesis: Simplicity and abductive arguments for scientific realismPlacement after PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy, National University of SingaporeLast known: Visiting Fellow, Philosophy, National University of Singapore

Nick Tosh

Thesis: History, truth and reasons: a critique of historiographical antirealismPlacement after PhD: University Lecturer, NUI Galway

2007

Paul Dicken

Thesis: A defence of constructive empiricismPlacement after PhD: Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, CambridgeLast known: Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales

Bill Grundy

Thesis: Language and world in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical InvestigationsPlacement after PhD: Not known

Francis Reid

Thesis: The province of science: James Hector and the New Zealand Institute, 1867–1903Placement after PhD: Research Assistant, University of LincolnLast known: Business Development Manager, Fonterra; Co-founding Director, Snowball Effect

Jeffrey Skopek

Anke Timmermann

Thesis: The circulation and reception of a Middle English alchemical poem: the Verses upon the Elixir and the associated corpus of alchemicaPlacement after PhD: Senior Historian, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USALast known: Antiquarian book specialist, co-founder and co-owner, Type & Forme, Grantham

Stefan Brenner

Thesis: An eco-dispositional theory of colourPlacement after PhD: Not known

Victoria Carroll

Thesis: Science and eccentricity in early nineteenth-century BritainPlacement after PhD: Curator, National Museum of Science and IndustryLast known: Director, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London

Jenny Downes

Thesis: Visual portrayals of the new astronomy: Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687)Placement after PhD: Curator, Science Collections, Marischal Museum, AberdeenLast known: Curator and Deputy Head of Museums, University of Aberdeen

Sarah Dry

Axel Gelfert

Thesis: The structure of testimonial knowledgePlacement after PhD: Assistant Professor, Philosophy, National University of SingaporeLast known: Associate Professor, Philosophy, National University of Singapore

Daniel Heard

Thesis: Laws of nature: reductive metaphysics, anti-reductive semanticsPlacement after PhD: Not known

Jeff Kochan

Thesis: A poetics of tool use: explorations in Heidegger and science studiesPlacement after PhD: Research Fellow, University of AlbertaLast known: Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz

Christina McLeish

Thesis: Empty threats: reference failure and scientific realismPlacement after PhD: Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, BerlinLast known: Writer

Ayesha Nathoo

Thesis: Medicine and the media: negotiating the transplantable heart in Britain, 1967–69Placement after PhD: Junior Research Fellow, Clare Hall, CambridgeLast known: Wellcome Research Fellow, University of Exeter

Meredith Price

Thesis: DNA and the news media: science journalism and the history of DNA researchPlacement after PhD: Management Consultancy, USALast known: Medical Doctor, USA

Ayako Sakurai

Thesis: Science, identity and urban reinvention in mercantile city-state: the associational culture of nineteenth-century Frankfurt am MainPlacement after PhD: Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceLast known: Associate Professor, Business Administration, Senshu University

Alix Cohen

John Latsis

Thesis: Theories of the arbitrary economyPlacement after PhD: Junior Research Fellow, Balliol College, OxfordLast known: Associate Professor, Social and Organisational Theory, Henley Business School

Michael Michael

Thesis: Akrasia: an essay on what it means to act without self-restraintPlacement after PhD: Lecturer, Yonsei UniversityLast known: Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Underwood International College, Yonsei University

Sadiah Qureshi

Thesis: Living curiosities: human ethnological displays in London, 1800–1855Placement after PhD: Leverhulme Research Fellowship, Classics, University of CambridgeLast known: Senior Lecturer, History, University of Birmingham

Rob Ralley

Jason Rampelt

Thesis: Distinctions of reason and reasonable distinctions: the academic life of John Wallis (1616–1703)Placement after PhD: Research Fellowship, St Edmund's College, CambridgeLast known: Adjunct Teacher, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh; Fellow, Greystone Theological Institute, Pittsburgh

Mark Sprevak

Thesis: Computation in Mind and WorldPlacement after PhD: Leverhulme/King's Early Career Fellow in Philosophy, University of CambridgeLast known: Senior Lecturer, Philosophy, Psychology and Language Studies, University of Edinburgh

2004

Katrina Dean

Thesis: Settler physics in Australia and Cambridge, 1850–1950Placement after PhD: Curator for History of Science, British LibraryLast known: Special Collections Librarian, University Library, Cambridge

Catherine Eagleton

Thesis: Instruments in context: telling the time in England, 1350–1500Placement after PhD: Curator, Modern Money, The British MuseumLast known: Director of Museums, University of St Andrews

Greg Fried

Thesis: What theory cannot capture: Freud and four philosophers on humourPlacement after PhD: University Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cape Town

Anna Mayer

Thesis: Roots of the history of science in Britain, 1916–1950Placement after PhD: Research Fellow, University of FloridaLast known: Research Fellow, Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre, Bath

Gerald Kutcher

Thesis: Clinical ethics and research imperatives in human radiation experiments: a case of contested conductPlacement after PhD: Assistant Professor, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, SUNY BinghamtonLast known: Professor, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, SUNY Binghamton

Wen-Ji Wang

Thesis: A genealogy for the psychoanalyst: Bildung, experiment, and the training of the psychoanalystPlacement after PhD: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, TaiwanLast known: Associate Professor, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

Talal Debs

Thesis: Representation and symmetry: an analysis of the tension between objectivity and conventionality in modern physicsPlacement after PhD: Research Associate, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSELast known: Executive Director, JP Morgan, NY

Cathy Gere

Thesis: Psyche's labyrinth: Minoan archaeology and modern prophecy, 1900–1945Placement after PhD: Wellcome Trust Research Associate, King's College, CambridgeLast known: Associate Professor, History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

Christopher Haley

Thesis: Envisioning the unseen universe: models of the ether in the nineteenth centuryPlacement after PhD: Departmental Archivist and Historian, Department of Chemistry, University of CambridgeLast known: Executive Director, Policy and Research, Nesta, London

Sujit Sivasundaram

Thesis: Nature speaks theology: colonialism, cultivation, conversion and the Pacific, 1795–1850Placement after PhD: Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeLast known: Reader in World History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

John Tresch

Thesis: Mechanical romanticism: engineers of the artificial paradisePlacement after PhD: Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania